1872 Stabbing of Pleas Coleman by Jackson Jones Near Port Union, Union Parish Louisiana
Submitted by:       T. D. Hudson
Date of Submission: 8/2001

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1872 Stabbing of Pleas Coleman by Jackson Jones Near Port Union, Union Parish Louisiana

From the "Ouachita Telegraph", issue of 6 April 1872, page 3, column 3
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"UNION PARISH. On Tuesday, the 18th inst., while a party of men were working the road 
leading east from this place towards Port Union, a freedman named Jackson Jones stabbed 
another freedman named Pleas Coleman.  Jones was arrested the next day and brought before 
the Parish Judge for examination.  There being no evidence as to the nature of the wounds, 
Jones was held to answer to the charge assault with a dangerous weapon. Coleman died on the 
25th, probably from the effect of the wounds, and it was then ordered that he be held to 
answer to the charge of manslaughter."


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